It’s not just me and you,” Gavin (Mathew Horne) reminds Stacey (Joanna Page), perhaps superfluously. It never is with these two. More than an Essex boy meets Welsh valleys girl story, Gavin & Stacey has always been about the unlikely union of the couple’s meddlesome families and their respective best friends (played by series creators James Corden and Ruth Jones).

Gavin and Stacey first hit our screens in 2007, and 17 years later, it has finally drawn to a close in a heartwarming, clever, and funny episode that was well worth the wait. The series left viewers on a cliffhanger in the last episode,

The final episode of Gavin And Stacey gripped viewers as characters Smithy and Nessa finally got their happy ending, five years on from the Christmas proposal cliffhanger. The festive special kicked off in both Billericay and Barry as the family of Stacey Shipman,